In retaliation of Operation Amelie, my co-worker, Nathalie, strung lime green ribbon all throughout my cube. (Keba was fortunate enough to have left WV before Nath could do anything to her cube!) I’ve since rearranged the ribbon so that I could at least walk into my cube. Everyone taller than 5′ has to duck when they walk in and carefully stand in a spot where the ribbon isn’t strangling them or going into their mouth. I kind of like it, but I’ll probably take the ribbon down at the end of this week.

At the entrance of my cube, Nath had put up this sign: (sorry for the blur)

Here’s how the sign’s wording evolved:

Stage 1: Senior Writers Rule!!!
Stage 2: Senior Writers DON’T Rule!!!
Stage 3: Senior Writers Rule!!! (with the “DON’T” turned into a flower pot)
Stage 4: Senior Writers WISH THEY Rule!!!
Stage 5: Senior Writers: THEY Rule!!! (with the “WISH” being turned into a butterfly; and only writers would remember to insert a colon to make the phrase grammatically correct!)
Stage 6: NON-Senior Writers: THEY Rule!!!
Stage 7: Senior Writers: THEY Rule!!! (Nath had crossed out “NON-”, to which I responded by using white out to write it back in. That was only blacked out again, whited out again, and finally ripped off by Nath.)
Stage 8: Senior Writers: THEY DON’T Rule!!! “(esp. ones with the initials N.M.),” I added for clarification
Stage 9: Senior Writers: THEY REALLY Rule!!! (again, the original word was whited out and then written over with a black marker)
Stage 10 (currently, although not shown in picture): Senior Writers: THEY RARELY Rule!!!
And in case it wasn’t totally clear, Nath is a senior writer, and I’m just a “plain” writer…or “Junior” writer, as she likes to say.